Mr. Scot

Would it make sense to draft a great zone corner if you're running a man based system? Ditto drafting a 4-3 defensive end when you're running a 3-4 defense. Drafting a guy who can't run your offense wouldn't exactly be a quick path to a head coaching job. Not only are you not going to look good, but neither are they. It's not about promotion though. It's about winning. And when you're trying to win, you pick up players that suit what you do. Doing otherwise would be crazy.

Other trend: Defense

Don't know, but as long as he is here right now, it would be pretty stupid to take a quarterback that doesn't fit his system.

That was Dator? No wonder it sounded stupid.

Apparently the Panthers aren't

Tepper might have, but Rhule and Fitterer didn't. Some of us saw this possibility ahead of time.

That happened at my place too but there's no video of it

I don't recall much of anybody being concerned about injuries to Fields. There's the epilepsy thing but nobody thought that was a real problem.

I seem to recall you telling me that all signs were pointing to Fields and I needed to "deal with it" You're not prepared to take your own advice?

You need a new avatar, man.

In what's basically the first year of a rebuild, you really shouldn't.

Doubt it.

To be fair, he said "if".

Panthers history with the current regime goes back to about January.

Technically we did get offers. They just weren't good enough offers for Fitterer.

We've been trying to reach you about that

I am. Jeremy Fowler actually said a little before the draft that the Panthers were putting it out there that they could take a quarterback but some teams weren't buying it. Once the report got out that they weren't picking up Darnold's option yet, multiple analysts jumped on it to say that it meant we were probably taking a quarterback.

See above. We've been told by more than one source that the Panthers didn't like Lance and thought his skill set was a mismatch for Joe Brady's offense Person stated a while back that the Panthers didn't think that much of any of the quarterbacks outside the top two. The result of the draft would seem to bear that out.

Verge's actual quote was that there were people in the building who were very high on Fields, but that Fitterer and Rhule were not among those people. Looks like that was true.

Insiders have said several times that the team wasn't very high on Lance. Their thought was that he doesn't fit Joe Brady's system.

I am shocked Still waiting to see what the "strong plan" is. Speculation was that they renegotiate his deal to spread out the cap hit over both years. Guess we'll see.

I'd also prefer Richie Grant if we went that route, but I really want a tackle.

Can't speak for everybody, but I previously been talking about Tepper saying he was going to let his people do their jobs and wasn't going to try to be something he isn't. My worry was that he might not live up to that statement. He did.

Eeeehhh, maybe. We don't really know what Rhule said to him. Could have been something as simple as "we really like you". Reports confirm that we did take trade down offers.

One other thing I think you can take from this: Our smokescreen game isn't too shabby. Several mocks from good sources had us taking Fields right up to the day of the draft.